Joe Biden appeared to mix up France’s President Emmanuel Macron with one of his predecessors – despite him having died in 1996.
Biden’s latest blunder came as he addressed supporters in Las Vegas ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
During the speech, the President recalled speaking to French leader François Mitterand as they attended a world leaders’ meeting in 2021.
Mitterand, who served as French President from 1981 until 1995, died of prostate cancer in 1996.
Biden said: “It was in the south of England. And I sat down and I said, ‘America is back,’ and Mitterrand from Germany…I mean from France, looked at me and said – said, ‘you know what — why — how long you back for?’
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Most notably, during a speech in September 2022, Biden sought out Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski – eight weeks after she had died in a car crash.
He once claimed to have been “sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”
Biden also startingly appeared to reveal he had cancer during a speech, stating: “You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window.
“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.”
White House spokesman Andrew Bates rushed in to clarify the President had been treated for “non-melanoma skin cancers” years ago.
He, however, failed to explain why Biden had used the present tense.
